by Arnaud · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266023023
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«Le Salaire de la Peur» is the suspense novel by Georges Arnaud, published by Pocket in paperback format (184 pages, in French).
In a miserable coastal town in Central America, suffocated by unemployment and poverty, four desperate men agree to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin along a jungle track to extinguish a fire at an oil well. The journey becomes a struggle against fear, greed and death, with the jungle as a backdrop.
The novel originally appeared in 1950 and this French Pocket edition dates from 1984; the action takes place on the Pacific coast of Central America.
Suitable for readers of thrillers and adventure novels, and for those who want to read in French the story immortalized by Clouzot's movie.
